> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Timothy Snyder > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 11:27 PM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: RE: [U2] OPEN vs TRANS > > > "George Gallen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/11/2005 > 02:01:52 PM: > > > Also, I don't use the OCONV() method with corelatives, I use the > > VAR=RAISE(TRANS(filename,itemname,-1,'x')), which is pretty self > > commenting, of course, that requires you to know what the TRANS() > > keyword does. >
As a replacment for OPEN/READ, no, TRANS is no benefit,but for a subroutine or a program that only needs to read a table or whatever 1 time during the execution of the program, then I don't see a problem with it. Again it's a keyword, thus documentation is in the book. Now if it were embedded in a block of code, you could comment the function of the block of code. but to document the TRANS itself would be like commenting a Do/While loop as ; * a do while loop (which to me makes a program longer and doesn't add anything). > I'm not trying to be difficult here - I'm just trying to see > the benefits > of this alternative to a straightforward and standard approach. > nothing difficult...to each their own. Where I have it in use is quite clear and quite maintainable. > > Tim Snyder > George ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
